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Forget October bombshells. The real surprise in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign will come when disaffected voters shun the polls.

What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.

Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?

Wang Yang is the great hope of China's urban intelligentsia. Is he about to make the big time?

Beijing's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur tells Jonathan Landreth what's wrong with China's frenetic capital.

In China's pulsing capital, change is the only constant.

Is history repeating itself in China's glittering global city?

From traffic-jumping buses to electric taxis, China is at the forefront of the world's flashiest urban innovations.

China's cities are making the same mistake America made on the path to superpower status.

An exclusive look at the 75 powerhouses of the urban revolution.

Susan Rice calls the plays for Barack Obama at the United Nations. Could she lead his foreign-policy team next? Should she?

Long a target for "reform," the United Nations has taken heat for a bloated bureaucracy and gridlocked Security Council. FP surveyed top experts about what role it should play in today's ever-more-tangled global conflicts, with Madeleine Albright guiding us through the results.

The president's Republican critics are dead wrong. The stimulus worked.

How do you heal an entire country suffering from shell shock?

How America came to embrace assassination.

What Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno takes with him to the war zone.

Why millions of people choose to live in urban squalor.

Language offers a clue to countries' economic behavior.

Why economic growth hasn't made the Chinese any happier.

The Midnight's Children author reflects on life under fatwa, the Arab Spring, and his one-night stand with Twitter.